A short note regarding Elon Musk’s audience share of planet Earth.
For comparison: Tucker Carlson is the most popular TV news commentator in the English-speaking world. He gets 5-10 million views of his broadcasts.
One of the most popular YouTubers, PewDiePie, had 110 million subscribers in 2021.
Wikipedia estimates 400 million native English speakers, and a billion or so ESL speakers.
Assuming Musk’s followers are human and not bots, and speak English, this would mean that around ten percent of the entire English speaking world is following Elon Musk on Twitter.
Which is quite extraordinary reach…
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